March 2010 Employment Cost Index — 2010-04-30

*** (NOTE: Employment Cost Index data from June 2009 through September 2010 have been found to contain errors in several data series and will be corrected in the public database available on the BLS website. This news release will not be corrected. The primary errors are in wage and salary data for State and local government public administration. Additional series are subject to correction as well. For further information see: www.bls.gov/bls/eci_corrections_111910.htm.) *** Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.6 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending March 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries (which make up about 70 percent of compensation costs) increased 0.4 percent while benefits (which make up the remaining 30 percent of compensation)--increased 1.1 percent. Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.7 percent for the 12-month period ending March 2010. This was smaller than the 2.1 percent increase for the 12-month period ending in March 2009.